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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

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1. A six-line unit of verse constituting a stanza or section of a poem.






2. The conversation of characters in a literary work.






3. The difference between what is expected and what actually happens.






4. A customary feature of a literary work - such as the use of a chorus in Greek tragedy - the inclusion of an explicit moral in a fable - or the use of a particular rhyme scheme in a villanelle.






5. A Greek term first used by Aristotle to describe the emotional cleansing or purification that results after watching a tragedy performed on stage.






6. A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a seperate stanza in a poem.






7. The grammatical order of words in a sentence or line of verse or dialogue.






8. Poetic meters such as trochaic and oactylic that move or fall from a stressed to an unstressed syllable.






9. Broken down acts.






10. A figure of speech in which an abstract concept or an absent or imaginary person is directly addressed.






11. An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one.






12. A nineteen-line lyric poem that relies heavily on repetition.






13. A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones.






14. A story passed down over the generations that was once believed to be true.






15. A technique in which words - phrases - or sounds are repeated for emphasis.






16. A historical or literary reference to a person - place - thing - or event that the reader is expected to recognize.






17. A figure of speech in which an inanimate object animal - or idea is given human qualities or characteristics.






18. A short story that teaches a moral or a religious lesson.






19. A figure of speech in which two completely unlike things are compared.






20. An accented syllable followed by an unaccented one.






21. A character who contrsts and parallels the main character in a play or story.






22. Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme.






23. The implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and acharacters of a work.






24. A brief witty poem - often satirical.






25. The character or force with which the protagonist conflicts.






26. A speech delivered while only one character is on stage; it reveals a character's innermost thoughts and feelings.






27. Two unaccented syllables followed by an accented syllable.






28. The dictionary meaning of a word.






29. The use of symbols in literature to convey meaning.






30. The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or a line of poetry or prose.






31. The use of similar structure to express similar or related ideas - words - phrases - sentences - or paragraphs may be organized in a parallel structure.






32. The voice an actor takes on to tell the story in a particular work.






33. Words spoken by one character in a play - either directly to the audience or to another character - that the other characters supposedly do not hear.






34. An intensification of the conflict in a story or play.






35. A character struggles with himself/herself and his/her opposing needs.






36. A story passed down over generations that is believed to be based on real events and real people.






37. A figure of speech in which a writer or speaker says less than what he or she means.






38. Refers to a writers use of language - including the use of literary techniques - word choice - and sentence structure - that sets one writer apart from another.






39. A division or unit of a poem that is repeated in the same form - - either with similar or identical patterns or rhyme and meter - or with variations from one stanza to another.






40. A figure of speech involving exaggeration.






41. A short saying with a moral.






42. A love lyric in which the speaker complains about the arrival of the dawn - when he must part from his lover.






43. A long - statle poem in stanzas of varied length - meter - and form.






44. A concrete representation of a sense impression - a feeling - or an idea.






45. An interruption of a work's chronology to describe or present an incident that occurred prior to the main time frame of a work's action.






46. Spectific characteristics are applied to an entire group of people and are used to 'classify' those people as part of a 'group'.






47. The omission of an unstressed vowel or syllable to preserve the meter of a line of poetry.






48. A figure of speech in which a closely related term is substituted for an object or idea.






49. A recurring pattern found in a work or works of literature; the pattern is usually representative of something else.






50. Then narrator is a character in the story and tells the reader his/her story using the pronoun 'I'.